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"And I've learned a valuable lesson in "passing the buck".
Actually...you've learned a valuable lesson in discovering trustworthiness. Sometimes, a little extra time and/or research can help you discern who might be correct in a given..." [
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""If you prefer something more sedentary, perhaps writing - get a notebook and just let yourself write out everything you're thinking and feeling, no matter how crappy or awful."
Be CAREFUL with this. I discovered, eventually, that..." [
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"Having been in crazy non-profit situations, I say: get the hell out of Dodge ASAP, and don't worry about the raging. It will pass, all this will pass, and the toughness you've built up in this experience will serve you well in the future. You will..." [
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"Please share it with your son. My dad bought a bottle of port when I was born; he died when I was 8, and mom didn't find it until I was in my mid-20s. I kept waiting for "the right occasion" and then it fell from a shelf and was broken...." [
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"I was looking for something similar on a more practical level (trying to help another online community) not too long ago.
* MeTa question looking for 2007 essay (I self-link because there's some other interesting stuff there, including a book..." [
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"I have an odd perspective which may or may not be useful: my younger sister put her daughter up for adoption 11 years ago. Sis was 20, not with the kid's father, and in a bad space in her life.
It was an open adoption, and the adoptive parents (an..." [
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2 months ago
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"As I said in the first thread linked by k8lin, I didn't learn how to ride a bike until I was almost 30, and the Townie rocked my world. As in, I sat down, started pedaling, and boom! I was riding a bike! (I still had a lot to learn, but I wasn't..." [
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4 months ago
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"I don't know about NYC, but I just learned how to ride a bike a year & a half ago (I'm 31), and the bike that I was finally able to learn on was the electra townie.
Super-comfortable, and I don't freak out about losing my balance.
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4 months ago
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"Speaking as someone who has been losing weight purposefully, I'd say if your cravings are occasional & moderate: go for it. One of the things that has kept me being healthy and steadily losing weight over the last year has been not having any..." [
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6 months ago
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"I didn't discover D&D until after college (although I LOVED the short-lived cartoon when I was little kid), when C, my then-boyfriend-now-husband got me playing. We played Advanced 2nd Edition for a few years, mostly with a group that featured a..." [
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6 months ago
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"Rewind's answer reminds me of something my therapist "prescribed": every day right before bed, I write down what "worked" that day. Sometimes I focus on particular personal goals (dealing with conflict, for example), other times,..." [
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8 months ago
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"If you like history, "Guns, Germs & Steel" might be up your alley, plus his follow-up (Collapse?)." [
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9 months ago
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""factory and business owners"? Um, wasn't the 8-hour day and the 5-day week also a regular request of turn-of-the-century labor unions? With the (honestly, a little weird) exception of Ford, most large factory, mine, sweatshop, etc owners..." [
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9 months ago
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"Join a credit union and get a credit card there. Usually it's going to be very local and they're not going to be bought by Citibank et al.
I've had nothing but good experiences with my credit union in general and with credit cards from them in..." [
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"My father bought a bottle of port when I was born to give me on my 21st birthday.
Unfortunately, he died when I was 8, my mother forgot about it, then found it in a locked cabinet when I was about 25. And then it got broken by accident when I was..." [
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